Washington: The White House has said that the bombing by the Nato warplanes on the residence of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is not an assassination attempt.
“It is certainly not the policy of the coalition, of this administration, to decapitate, or to effect regime change in Libya by force,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.
He said that the military mission was aimed at protecting civilian population, enforcing no-fly zone and the arms embargo.
Carney avoided getting further into Monday’s bombing by referring reporters to Nato about the “specific decisions in terms of bombing missions”.
The Nato warplanes bombed the residence of Gaddafi in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, early Monday morning in an attack described by the Libyan government as an attempt on the Libyan leader’s life.
A Libyan press official at the scene said that 45 people were wounded in the bombing, among whom 15 were in serious condition, and some others remained unaccounted for.
Gaddafi’s office in the compound, where he often held ministerial and other meetings, was destroyed along with another multi-story structure.
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